English Listening: Detailed Explanation of Various Modes of Transportation and Travel Methods

Fifteen minutes a day, easily improve your listening skills! This book selects two-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through the four stages of "pre-listening—grasping keywords—understanding sentence by sentence—overall retelling," you will progress step by step to understand more than 90% of the content. With persistent practice, gradual improvement leads to a breakthrough in your English listening ability! Below is a selection from qicai.com’s editor of some beginner-level listening materials starting from the simplest English listening, suitable for junior and senior high school students (Beginner’s Section).

People move from place to place. There are lots of ways you can move around from one place to another. Sometimes you can just move your feet and walk. Walking is good for you. Some places are too far to walk to. You might have to ride a bicycle or ride on a skateboard. Some places are too far away to ride your bicycle to. You might have to drive in a car or a van or even a truck. My father has a car. My uncle has a van. I have never been in a big truck. Trucks are usually used to carry big loads from one city to another. I would like to be a truck driver. I would travel all over and sit high up in the cab.

I have been in a taxi cab. Once my mother and I took a taxi to the hospital. There was a special meter in the taxi. When we finished our taxi ride, the driver looked at the meter to find out how much money we owed him. I once rode a horse. I sat in the saddle and held on tight to the reins. The horse ran very fast. It was a bumpy ride. And I was afraid that I would fall off the horse. Not too many people around here use horses for transportation. They used to use horses for transportation in the old days.

If you want to travel very far away, you have to go on a train, a plane, or a boat. If you are in a hurry, it is best to take a plane. Planes fly through the air very fast. Trains go along the tracks. Sometimes I can hear the train whistle from my house. Boats take a long time to cross the ocean. Great big boats that cross the oceans are called ships. If you like to take it easy and look out at the water, then ships are a good way to travel. They say that the world is a lot smaller now because of transportation. People can travel to all parts of the world quickly and easily. The world is not really smaller, but it has become easy to get to faraway places.